As a tutor at the Slade School of Fine Art, Richards belongs to a long list of distinguished artists who have taught there including Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud and Stanley Spencer. 'Portrait of Anthony', depicting Connaught Brown director Anthony Brown, belongs to his celebrated 'Oxford Drawings' series of psychologically charged human figures, animals and birds. Using an expressionist style, he explores the human form employing a series of lines and gestural marks inspired by Rembrandt’s ink drawings and Old Master drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, and limits his materials to pen and ink and water in order to get ‘as close to the subject as possible’. Working increasingly from memory, these searching drawings reveal the emotional connection between the artist and his sitters.